• chunes@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    As an American if someone said “nitch” out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:

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      14 hours ago

      It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.

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        12 hours ago

        policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language

        A lot of other languages besides english have institues dedicated to doing that exact thing. In spanish it’s the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española).